This year has been a rather fruitful one for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, with Microsoft's Xbox Live Games with Gold programme giving away $584.67 worth of games for your annual subscription fee, which lest we forget, also enables you to play online and stuff.

While PlayStation Plus gave players $1349.29 in titles, that figure also takes into account PS Vita titles, making it essentially three consoles - PS4, PS3, PS Vita - versus two - Xbox One and Xbox 360. Also, Games with Gold didn't come to Xbox One until June, so there's that to factor in too.

With your $60 Xbox Live Gold membership, you could bag 34 games, including $9.99 titles like Halo: Spartan Assault and Episode One of Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief, to more expensive games like Darksiders II, which is listed at $39.99. The offerings also averaged an overall Metacritic average of 78.3, meaning a fairly decent standard.

Check out 2014's Games with Gold below, listed by month with prices and Metacritic scores to date, courtesy of Polygon.